AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF KIM DISTRICT IN NUMAN DIVISION OF ADAMAWA PROVINCE FROM, c. 1900-1960
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF KIM DISTRICT IN NUMAN DIVISION OF ADAMAWA PROVINCE FROM, c. 1900-1960
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2011-06
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MAMURU, Henry Abdullahi
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Abstract
This dissertation is an examination of the various processes that laid the foundation for
the establishment of British colonial economy in Kiri district between the years 1900 to I960.
These processes transformed a pre-colonial subsistence society where the economic preoccupation
was basically agriculture to one centred on the export of agricultural produce,
particularly cotton. Though, the pre-colonial economy in Kiri area was adequately balanced
in terms of agricultural productions,this balance was disrupted by the actions and policies of
the British Colonial Government. As a result, our emphasis is to understand the production
and reproduction of people within Kiri district, which picked up momentum from 1913 to
1957. This development in the colonial economichistory of Kiri district and indeed Nigeria as
a whole, led to the incorporation of Kiri society into the international capitalists economy.
On the whole, this dissertation demonstratedhow colonialism impacted on the
agriculturalproduction of Kiri districtthrough the introduction of modern innovations in
agricultural methods and practices. Thus, the scenario created, abated the independent growth
of the economic pre-occupalionof a people. The effect of this situation was the
commercialization of cotton production through the competitive, oligopolistic and
monopolistic tendencies of the Colonial State and its agents. This, in a lot of ways created
imbalances within the fabrics of Kiri district,especially economic, political, social and
cultural spheres of development that has kept her in a state of an underdeveloped rural
community.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF ARTS IN HISTORY
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ECONOMIC HISTORY,, KIM DISTRICT, NUMAN DIVISION,, ADAMAWA PROVINCE,, 1900-1960